Soza says it was her husband's regular breakfast of yogurt and these berries that caused him to become seriously ill on their anniversary trip to Yellowstone National Park.

"We never would have associated the berries with his condition in a million years,” Soza said.

She was able to take just one picture of him on the trip before things took a bad turn.

“He didn't want to have anything to deal with food. This general discomfort was worsening. He started to get hot to the touch,” she explained.

Rita says her husband was rushed to the hospital. After tests, doctors determined something was wrong with his gall bladder but just as he was getting ready to go into surgery, they learned the operation was impossible because of Soza's elevated liver enzymes.

"The surgeon rushes in and says I can't operate on this man,” she recalls.